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Drs. Peter and Rosemary Grant – 40 years of Evolution of Darwin’s Finches 

Tuesday, January 16, 2018 – 6:30pm to 7:45pm Charles Darwin said evolution was too slow to be observed, but modern studies have corrected this assertion. The Grants will discuss their decades of work studying Darwin’s finches on the Galápagos Island … Continue reading →

Door 16 – …Cromerty, Forth, Tyne, Dogger, Fisher… 

The final instalment in our series highlighting some of the more unusual maps in our collection… This is a map discovered rolled and stowed within a remote cranny in the Archivist’s Office, provenance uncertain.  It is presumed a former member of staff was a keen weekend sailor, or perhaps a radio ham. It conjures images of storm-tossed seas on which bob storm-tossed boats filled with salted, storm-tossed fishermen swathed in … Continue reading →